This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YlB.2ACI/1965 Message Board Post: I am a master's student at Texas Christian University conducting research for my thesis involving a county-level study of women during Reconstruction. I am interested in examining the typical social-history questions of how gender relations changed after the Civil War, what happened to Confederate widows, etc. Along those lines, I think that Lamar County might be a suitable county to focus on. To conduct this type of study I am hoping to find a county with a newspaper(microfilm copies, etc) that currently exists that date back to 1865-1880; complete county records; and hopefully some literary sources(letters, diaries, memoirs, etc) that would shed light on women from 1865-1880. If you could comment on the availability of these above sources for Lamar County that would be very helpful. Any suggestions/ information that you have, regarding Lamar or any other North Texas county, I would sincerely appreciate. Thank you again.

Check with Daisy Harville, Archivisst at Paris Junior College, for sources. I know there are newspapers on microfilm. There may be otheer sources available there. jean dingman [email protected] wrote:This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YlB.2ACI/1965 Message Board Post: I am a master's student at Texas Christian University conducting research for my thesis involving a county-level study of women during Reconstruction. I am interested in examining the typical social-history questions of how gender relations changed after the Civil War, what happened to Confederate widows, etc. Along those lines, I think that Lamar County might be a suitable county to focus on. To conduct this type of study I am hoping to find a county with a newspaper(microfilm copies, etc) that currently exists that date back to 1865-1880; complete county records; and hopefully some literary sources(letters, diaries, memoirs, etc) that would shed light on women from 1865-1880. If you could comment on the availability of these above sources for Lamar County that would be very helpful. Any suggestions/ information that you have, regarding Lamar or any other North Texas county, I would sincerely appreciate. Thank you again. ==== TXLAMAR Mailing List ==== Lamar Co., TX USGenWeb Archives: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/tx/lamar/lamartoc.htm ============================== Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx